RE: Soldiers life threatened by his own side.
June 11, 2012 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2012 at 2:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
1: Is this an assumption or an axiom, is it the premise? Its actually a couple of axioms or assumptions or a set of premises all rolled into one. That there are rights, that living things possess rights, and that one of these rights is to not be harmed.
2: Are we not capable of harming the environment, for example? Does it have a mind? The word harm is too slippery, it can mean too many things. More precisely, harm -as you have defined it by reference to the above- requires a mind, but this is only true if we concede the above, which is precisely what I'm questioning. I'm not only questioning that the statement is accurate btw, but whether or not the metrics available to us in determining the accuracy of the statement are themselves accurate or reliable.
3: Here's the dividing line, the therefore, gonna have to handle the above.
2: Are we not capable of harming the environment, for example? Does it have a mind? The word harm is too slippery, it can mean too many things. More precisely, harm -as you have defined it by reference to the above- requires a mind, but this is only true if we concede the above, which is precisely what I'm questioning. I'm not only questioning that the statement is accurate btw, but whether or not the metrics available to us in determining the accuracy of the statement are themselves accurate or reliable.
3: Here's the dividing line, the therefore, gonna have to handle the above.
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